Neil, Let me guess ... you have default background somewhere set to "dark blue." <G> The GIF looks fine when I viewed it attached to my mail. Why? Because I have the corn yellow background as default in InSight. No dark blue background anywhere.. <G> The GIF has transparent areas ... in fact the 'tree' part seems to have the entire background set as transparent -- enabling the GIF to sorta fit right in with whatever default screen color the viewer is using, or better yet -- as it was designed to do, most likely -- to allow background of the webpage to show through. I just double checked ... when I used F-10 and view all files, then went to cache directory to view the GIF, it was totally unreadable. Why? Because when I view in that manner the background is always black. With a transparent background on the GIF, the black print disappeared and the rest of the tree looked crappy because of that and a lack of contrast. l.d. P.S. I'll bet that Cedar Island view has a default background color other than black or dark blue, right? :> ===== On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:36:39 +-0100XYZ(nWxst), Neil Parks wrote: > Tried to view the attached GIF with Arachne, and it looked awful. It is > supposed to be a directory tree as seen in a winbloat file manager, but > the dark blue background makes everything pretty much unreadable. > The same GIF looks exactly right when viewed with the ancient (1991) > Cedar Island GIF viewer 1.0. > [Attached file: ftp-acs-.] (File "ftp-acs-.gif" (type image/gif, size 9 KB)) -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
